Quotes About Ethics

Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Ciascuno di noi si suppone dotato di almeno una delle virtù cardinali, e questa è la mia: sono una delle poche persone oneste che abbia mai conosciuto

Jerry Falwell would be responsible for the raising of all illegitimate children who had no homes;

Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong. It's a fail-proof system; if you just stick to that one simple rule, why, you couldn't make a mistake if you tried.

His motto: "Screw the little people." He had lied before, and he would lie again. Ethics were for suckers.

Easy!" he said. "Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong. It's a fail-proof system; if you just stick to that one simple rule, why, you couldn't make a mistake if you tried." He sat back and crossed his arms. "Pretty neat, huh?

But as Michael Sandel, a Harvard philosopher, explained in his 2012 book, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, we have moved from accepting a market economy to creating a market society, one in which everything is seen through the prism of price.

If money can buy a better house or car or even a yacht, that's one thing. But if it can buy citizenship, special access to public spaces, preferential treatment at colleges, and favors from politicians, it becomes a corrupting and corroding force.

80 billion animals are slaughtered for meat every year around the world. (And that doesn't even count fish.)

To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the same that everyone makes to themselves when faced with the misery of others; though they would like to do the right thing, they simply fail to do so and look after themselves instead.

By calling in the Vigilantes, we are asking them to do what we can't or won't do ourselves.

War is new to her, power to destroy her enemies untried. When a woman meets her enemy she has no code of ethics. She's unhampered by a sense of honor. She has a much keener sense of kill-or-be-killed than we men. A woman faces her enemy and destroys him.

Do unto others as you want done to you :O)

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man.

A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he's concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life.

No hay mayor tragedia que tener la misma intensidad, en una misma alma o en un hombre, del sentimiento intelectual y del sentimiento moral. Para que un hombre pueda ser distintiva y absolutamente moral, tiene que ser un poco estúpido. Para que un hombre pueda ser absolutamente intelectual, tiene que ser un poco inmoral. No sé qué juego o ironía de las cosas condena al hombre a la imposibilidad de que se dé esta dualidad tan grande.

What once was moral is now, for us, aesthetic … What was social is now individual

The lack of respect between men, the indifference that allows them to kill others without compunction (as murderers do) or without thinking that they are killing (as soldiers do), comes from the fact that no one pays due attention to the apparently abstruse idea that other people have souls too.

A sexualidade é uma ética animal, a primeira e a mais instintiva das éticas.

All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what everyone else does.

And all religions put together teach no more than the candy shop.

Nothing grates more on me than the vocabulary of moral intent and social responsibility.

What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.